-By the End of the Decade One in Four UK Power Stations are Set to
Close and UK Gas Production is Expected to be Half of Current Levels,
yet Demand for Electricity is Expected to Increase by More than 50 Per
Cent by 2050
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IBM System Storage TS7610 ProtecTIER Deduplication Appliance Express The TS7610 is a powerful new addition to the IBM ProtecTIER
solution set, which brings the benefits of the reliability and
performance of disk-based data protection to mid-sized...

<EDIT date="2/3/2015"> rawTCP2HTTP never was a perfect solution, but things have become really bad: While the passthru/passthru trick with FSH timeout of 1sec works for clients not sending a FIN with rawTCP2HTTP running on <6.0.0.0 firmwares...

How does one judge a glass of wine? There are a few tests, how it looks, smells and taste are the basic three. But as the wine is poured you may or may not know that your wine is made up of different varieties of grapes. A producer sits down and experiments...

Previous posting "Processing binary data returned by dp:url-open()" https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/HermannSW/entry/processing_binary_data_returned_by_dp_url_open6?lang=en could have been titled "Processing binary...

Hi all, I want to take a moment of your time to share the new support page that highlights the features and capabilities between the stand-alone and IDE packages of IBM Data Studio: Feature in IBM Data Studio (Stand-alone versus IDE) Previously, this...

Top 10 Demos for 2010 If you haven't checked out the developerWorks On Demand Demo page, you might want to. developerWorks demos help you discover what a product has to offer ranging from quick product walkthroughs, from installation and setup, and...

Some time ago we had a "snowman" contest.
People built and took photos of snowmans they created.
I was the only submitter of a virtual snowman -- an ASCII art picture of a snowman created by DataPower (see snowman.html ). Please find the...

Interval fragmentation introduced in 11.70 helps you on two fronts. Less Maintenance: once you set the policy, Informix will automatically add required data and index on demand, as data comes in with DBA intervention. More database and application...

Till there is a ‘yin to try’ there cant be a ‘yang’ far away in terms of a game; a challenge! What really makes a cool ‘versus’ is a Man Vs THE MACHINE gaming! And that will always be a “jeopardy”… if not a double one at that. IBM Watson - Jeopardy is more...

My aunt Helen had an opinion on everything. She was an information junkie long before the Internet, consuming at least three newspapers a day and watching untold hours of news television. If she didn't know about an issue directly, she had enough reference...

The WebSphere MQ message persistence setting determines if a message survives system failures or a queue manager restart. The persistence attribute can be set in the message descriptor by the putting application, or is can be set using the default persistence...

Are you a fan of the US quiz show, Jeopardy? Then be sure to not miss the $1M competition between IBM's "Watson" computing system and the show’s two most successful and celebrated contestants -- Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter on Feb 14-16...

Usually TXSeries users would configure TXSeries regions to meet their
architecture requirements. But users miss to configure and tune SFS
volumes (both data and log volumes). Whenever a default region (SFS
Server as File Manager) is created in TXSeries,...

The Winter Solstice is the time for Data Governance Predictions. And here are mine for 2011: 1. Systemic Risk Councils will proliferate. The Dodd-Frank Bill established a Systemic Risk Council in the Federal Government to aggregate financial data from...

The CICS Explorer is two years old – at IBM we first released it in support pac form on November 5 th 2008 – and between now and then we’ve done a bunch of cool stuff with it. This blog is about a new perspective called System z.OS that we added to the 1.0.1...

Late during DB2 9.5 for LUW development a small set of functions was added without much fanfare which I always feel has been under appreciated. So this post is dedicated to explain it. I am speaking here of DB2's bit manipulation functions. How many columns do...

Fog. I thought we were in the clouds as the plane wheels hit the ground like a fighter jet landing on a carrier deck. Visibility was maybe three feet and the fog was so dense the plane parked on the tarmac and we were brought to the terminals in bright...

By now, you should have already seen that Informix 11.70 (Panther) has gone eGA. Here's the link to the official announcement: http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=ca&infotype=an&appname=iSource&supplier=877&letternu...

On Tuesday, I gave a keynote presentation at SIMposium 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia. It was on the last day of a conference at 8:15am. On the best of days, I'm not a great morning person. The last day of a conference is not normally the best of days for a...

The trio of Headshift, IDC and Tech4i2 have released their Interim
report on Enterprise 2.0 in Europe. This is a fantastic piece of work in
160 pages. I had time enough go through half of it so far. It covers so many
areas and compiles data on geography...